From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 16 07:53:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA21323 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA21317 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0tcDgz-000AoHC; Tue, 16 Jan 96 07:53 PST Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: deluser To: joe@smartlink.net (Joseph McDonald) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:53:01 -0800 (PST) Cc: gestur@islandia.is, jwb@xioa.cosmic.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Joseph McDonald" at Jan 15, 96 11:57:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Isn't an "rm -r" dangerous? What if the user symlinks to "/" ? No, rm -r does not follow symlinks; it just removes them. -- Alan Batie ______ batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Freedom for me to be and do +1 503 452-0960 \ / only what *you* approve of 45 28 59 N / 122 43 20 W / 440' MSL \/ is no freedom at all. It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.